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Synopsis: Story of Kyle-Lee Watson, a promising high school basketball star, and his relationships with Birdie, a powerful drug dealer, and Birdie's brother, Thomas 'Shep' Sheppard, himself once a promising high school star at Kyle's school, now employed as a security guard.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Director(s): Jeff Pollack
Production: New Line Home Entertainment
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
53%
R
Year:
1994
96 min
863 Views


The both of us.

Just think about it, all right?

What's this for?

Just a little incentive.

Birdie, I can't take

your money, man.

Come on, man.

You're embarrassing me.

You're a guest.

Everything in here costs.

Everything.

Look at her.

She wants you, man.

Go ask her for a dance.

Ask her for more than that.

Tell her I sent you.

Yeah, all right, Birdie.

Thanks, man.

All right.

Send me a bottle of champagne

over to my table.

Watch out, girl.

What's up?

Kyle Watson at point?

I got too much money

on this game to be f***ing around.

Come on.

Get off me.

Get off me!

Yeah, remember that one?

Get off me!

What you got there, huh?

Over here... over there!

Get off of me!

Come on, come on.

Get your hands off me.

Get off of me.

Come get this.

Come on.

Game.

Excuse me.

Think you can kiss me

anytime you feel like it?

Anytime.

Is there a problem?

- You better sit down.

- And if I don't?

Okay, all right.

All right!

How was the game last night?

- Is this all the mail there was?

- Yes.

Kyle, you cannot make yourself crazy

waiting for a recruitment letter.

Do you understand?

Phil Redd wouldn't talk to me last night.

I housed Montrose.

He's going to North Carolina.

- Where am I going?

- To college.

- Not if I don't get recruited.

- Even if you don't.

To where, City College?

They don't have a team.

Your future does not

depend on basketball.

See, that is the problem.

You don't think I'm good enough.

- I know you are. It's just that...

- It's just that nothing!

I don't care if you don't believe in me

or don't come to my games.

I was working.

That's why I missed your game.

That's why I want this scholarship,

so you won't have to work so hard.

Who is it?

It's Bugaloo. What's up?

Is that the friend you were out with

till 1:
00 in the morning?

I don't care if you're an All-American.

Don't miss your curfew again.

Hey, what's up, baby?

How are you doing?

Ready to hit that blacktop, kid?

I'm not going to tolerate this.

What's up, Miss Watson?

How you doing?

Remember me?

Trust me, Mom.

I'll see you at Wilson's after practice.

I thought moms was about

to beat your ass.

Moms wasn't going to do sh*t.

You still getting spankings.

You a grown man.

I got to take a leak.

What the f*** is wrong

with your plumbing?

- I had to get up out of there.

- Word.

Damn, G, I didn't know

you was uncircumcised.

Your dick like an anteater.

But it's so big.

You been lifting weights

with your dang-dang?

That big old dick.

I've been lifting your moms with my dick.

Now shut the f*** up, man.

F*** you, man.

Kyle, think your

moms remember me?

No disrespect, Kyle,

but your moms got a fat ass.

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Barry Michael Cooper

Barry Michael Cooper is an American writer, producer and director best known for his work on the films New Jack City, Above the Rim and Sugar Hill.Cooper's writing career began when he penned the 1987 Village Voice article, Teddy Riley's New Jack Swing. This brought him to the attention producer Quincy Jones who hired him to rewrite a screenplay which later became the basis of New Jack City. more…

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